Meet The Artist
My work is an ongoing field journal of British landscapes, botanical forms, and the hidden, often overlooked details of the natural world.
As someone who has moved between places and ways of belonging, I often experience landscape as more than scenery. It becomes a kind of portal: a way of learning a place, of recognising yourself within it, and of building a sense of identity through attention and observation.
I work across oil paint, watercolour, ink, gouache, pencil, and mixed media. Not every piece uses every medium; each subject determines its own material language. Some works are highly detailed and controlled, while others are more expressive and intuitive, shaped by the surface and intention of the piece.
LANdscapes
I am drawn to places that feel like thresholds - woodland edges, overgrown paths, moss-covered ground, and liminal green spaces such as Fletcher Moss park and forest in Manchester, UK. These are places where nature feels both familiar and slightly otherworldly, as though something is about to shift just beneath the surface.
Books
Books are portals too. Openings into imagination, knowledge, and possibility – which is why I paint on vintage book covers and often weave literary references into my work, treating them as physical thresholds between inner and outer worlds.
Fragments
Alongside botanical studies and wider landscape painting, I also explore animal forms, fungi, flowers, and small fragments of nature that carry symbolic weight. These elements become markers within a visual language of place- part documentation, part personal mythology.
What my work
means to me
My practice is rooted in calm, attention, and quiet expansion.
It brings me a sense of peace and healthy escapism- the feeling that there is more beauty, freedom, and possibility in the world than we often notice. It is a way of holding onto hope. A way of noticing magic in the everyday.
These works create a sense of emotional space. A pause. A breath.
They offer optimism without urgency, and imagination without escape from reality- more a deepening of it. A reminder that wonder is still available, even in ordinary places.
What my work
offers others
I think of my work as creating emotional landscapes as much as physical ones.
For the viewer, these pieces can offer a moment of nervous system quiet, a sense of pause, breath, and grounding. They can feel like a refuge within a home.
At the same time, they hold a sense of expansion and possibility. A quiet reminder that life is still unfolding, that there is still beauty ahead, and that the world contains more softness, depth, and freedom than we often allow ourselves to see.
Many collectors describe a feeling of recognition, of seeing a version of themselves in these landscapes. A sense of belonging. A feeling of “this is how I see the world too.”
A place to recognise yourself. A place to return to.
